SWE is the most transparent and ungatekept field in human history and it isn’t even close

--sent from emacs

You've been here long enough, I'm sure you could remember all of the posts complaining about the quality of coding bootcamps, that it was too easy for outsiders to learn software development. Is that your idea of gatekeeping?

Coding boot camps were notorious examples of failures and grifts. They did not produce meaningful quantities of software engineers.